I'm a teacher. Today I got two plus lessons in shool, because my collegue fell ill. I had an idea, thus I begun to talk about history of Olympic Games, winter olympics, winter sports, finally about figure skating. I said, every sports are developing, like the FS. I showed them some old and new programs only the men's, because I had no time more.( I prefer the men) I didn't tell them the skater's names, anyway they weren't interested in FS, more of them have never watched FS competitons.( In my country isn't too popular sport, even the girls too, are watching the soccer and Formula-1. ) They were 34 students, looked at the videos, after they voted.
Two world champion's SP
oldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGanRnHVNIs
newhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnaVlVQ1Lc

the old won , not too big difference, but won 20 votes to old and 14 votes to new.

(I don't know it had sense but i was curious after this thread )
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The top skaters can be artistic under the new system, but only they! Most of the skaters are focusing on the technical elements, the steps, and the edges. They have many regulations. But the audience would like to see many nice programs, not fighting with the elements.

Thank you for publishing the results of your research It makes all sense. I think this is certainly the main reason why the new judging system make figure skating less popular. The skater today focus to much on the element cause this is where they get points, but it certainly less attractive for the audience to watch them today.
So, in terms of television viewer, it makes the sport less enjoyable to watch because skaters nowadays lack of personality and freedom in their program compared to the past. I think the new judging system is the reason why the people who know nothing about skating enjoy most the 6.0 system. Skaters today are like robots and tend to perform for points and not to please their audience.

I'm a teacher. Today I got two plus lessons in school, because my collegue fell ill. I had an idea, thus I begun to talk about history of Olympic Games, winter olympics, winter sports, finally about figure skating. I said, every sports are developing, like the FS. I showed them some old and new programs only the men's, because I had no time more.( I prefer the men) I didn't tell them the skater's names, anyway they weren't interested in FS, more of them have never watched FS competitons.( In my country isn't too popular sport, even the girls too, are watching the soccer and Formula-1. ) They were 34 students, looked at the videos, after they voted.
Two world champion's SP
oldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGanRnHVNIs
newhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnaVlVQ1Lc

the old won , not too big difference, but won 20 votes to old and 14 votes to new.

(I don't know it had sense but i was curious after this thread )
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The top skaters can be artistic under the new system, but only they! Most of the skaters are focusing on the technical elements, the steps, and the edges. They have many regulations. But the audience would like to see many nice programs, not fighting with the elements.

Interesting research. As a teacher, you do have a unique chance to get feedback in classroom, wish we could see more figure skating fan/teacher give us some enlightenment.

The comparison between Plushenko and Chan is a perfect one for the purpose of this thread. Plushenko owned the ice, he owned the audience, he owned the universe. But if you look at the actual steps, turns and skating movements that he does, especially in his footwork sequence, you can see that he does practically nothing that the CoP would give a rusty hoot about. Some dancing on his toes, that's about it.

Chan, on ythe other hand, does everything the CoP likes. His feet are constantly moving, changing edge, changing direction, a long sequence on one foot. 9.0 for Transitions. His spins have the required number of rotations and changes of position, but do not add anything to the overall impact of the program.

-1 deduction for Chan for not using the original classic Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond Take Five. (Jazz great Brubeck passed away last week at age 92.)